Gerard Way Quotes

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture.

Simply put, I'm glad that manga as an expressive form is expanding.

My house is like a manga library in many ways, and it's great because I get to call it research.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.

I was an avid anime watcher until I was about 10, when I moved to manga. I think I am influenced by Osamu Tezuka's and Walt Disney's works which I watched during that time, such as Tetsuwan Atom and 101 Dalmatians.

It always amazes me that Japanese comics have, like, 200 pages. How do they do that? They're fat books; it's a whole different kind of comic that's very close to their films. So I'm drawing from that history and bringing it here - bringing it to Katana.

I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

I've always loved Japanese legend, anime and manga.

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.

I grew up on anime and manga. That's part of who I am.

More than my films being influenced by manga I was indelibly impressed by Manga, and that definitely comes out in the films.

My generation was a special generation. I was born in 1960 and in my childhood we were all big manga consumers that was the culture. We were brought up in manga. Manga evolved around what was being made to cater to kids. All children at that time read ridiculously thick manga books every week.

I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.

I go through phases when I'm super into my anime stuff.

Manga, as a medium, is very different from cinema. Its creators are free to express themselves with harsh, cruel stories, and they enjoy vast distribution throughout Japan.

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots.

I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood.

I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.